Gregor Henze

9NEWS: Study underway to look at feasibility of converting office buildings into housing, city says

March 23, 2023

Professor Gregor Henze, who has spent the last 15 years focusing on sustainable building design, sees the general types of projects as "doable" but not without some challenges, primarily when it comes to retrofitting the buildings for heating and cooling.

Cassie Venable

Civil alumna advancing disaster risk reduction

March 23, 2023

Casie Venable (PhDCivEngr’20) came to CU Boulder to work with professors Amy Javernick-Will and Abbie Liel on community resilience. Today Venable works in San Francisco for Arup, a global collective of designers, engineers, and consultants dedicated to sustainable development. As a consultant she works with clients to help them understand the potential risks they face from a variety of natural hazards, such as seismic activity and wind as well as manmade disasters like train derailments.

CEAE students in hard hats at Gross Reservoir site.

CVEN seniors tackle a portion of the Gross Reservoir Expansion Project

March 20, 2023

As part of their capstone project, seniors in CU Boulder's civil engineering program are contributing to the design of the expansion of Denver Water’s Gross Reservoir Expansion Project, which involves raising the height of Gross Dam by 131 feet. The renovated dam will nearly triple the reservoir’s water storage capacity and create a more reliable water system for 1.5 million people in the Denver metro area.

Professor Mark Hernandez and doctoral graduate Marina Nieto-Caballero stand inside a bioaerosol chamber in the Environmental Engineering disinfection laboratory at the Sustainability, Energy and Environment Complex (SEEC)

Tend to get sick when the air is dry? New research helps explain why

Feb. 23, 2023

Mark Hernandez, S. J. Archuleta Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and senior author of recent research published in PNAS-Nexus, found that airborne particles carrying a mammalian coronavirus closely related to the virus which causes COVID-19 remain infectious for twice as long in drier air.

Professor Mark Hernandez and doctoral graduate Marina Nieto-Caballero stand inside the 10-cubic-meters bioaerosol chamber used to study live airborne coronavirus persistence in the Environmental Engineering disinfection laboratory at the Sustainability, Energy and Environment Complex (SEEC). Photo by Patrick Campbell/University of Colorado.

Unique bioaerosol lab, dedicated students, made COVID research possible

Feb. 23, 2023

Professor Mark Hernandez, S. J. Archuleta Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, also directs CU Boulder's Environmental Engineering Microbiology and Disinfection Lab, an experimental space used to study infectious airborne particles and realistically mimics indoor environments. In a recent study published in PNAS-Nexus, the team studied murine hepatitis virus (MHV), a coronavirus that cannot infect humans but is closely related to SARS-CoV-2.

Mija Hubler delivering her TED-style talk

Mija Hubler, Research & Innovation Community Talk: The Life Cycle of Construction Materials

Feb. 15, 2023

In this talk, Associate Professor Mija Hubler (Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering; Materials Science and Engineering) discusses how construction materials have been understood historically and how her research is helping reimagine materials and processes with sustainability in mind.

The wreckage of a collapsed building in Diyarbakır, Turkey, on Feb. 6, 2023.

Turkey earthquake a ‘poster child’ for what could happen in Southern California

Feb. 14, 2023

Shideh Dashti, an associate professor of civil, environmental and architectural engineering and acting associate dean for research in the College of Engineering and Applied Science, says the geology underlying Turkey and Syria shares a lot in common with the West Coast of the United States.

Wil V. Srubar being interviewed by CU Boulder for a video about him.

Engineering News-Record names Wil V. Srubar III "Top 25 Newsmaker"

Feb. 3, 2023

Associate Professor Wil V. Srubar was named a "Top 25 Newsmaker" by editors at the Engineering News-Record for his passion about creating "living" building materials, beginning with a greener masonry block.

Two students in the large centrifuge.

What is the Center for Infrastructure, Energy, and Space Testing at CU Boulder?

Jan. 24, 2023

Welcome to the Center for Infrastructure, Energy, and Space Testing (CIEST) at CU Boulder, an experimental facility offering geotechnical centrifuges, structural dynamics and materials testing and research for business, government, and academic partners. CIEST is home to a massive array of cutting edge, specialized facilities to conduct small and large...

Brad Wham in a hard hat in a neighborhood burnt by the Marshall Fire

This scientist fled a deadly Wildfire, then returned to study how it happened

Jan. 20, 2023

In 2021, the devastating Marshall Fire showed wildfire can strike Colorado in almost any place or season. Scientists like Assistant Research Professor Brad Wham now hope to glean lessons from it for communities across the West.

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